Protos

Summary

The fundamentals of proto creation and use should now be clear to you. In this chapter you learned about both system and user protos and how they differ. You also learned about the numerous advantages of protos. Most importantly, you learned that protos are the vehicles of code reuse on the Newton. They are also the best way to minimize memory use--still the Newton's most precious resource.

Because protos are so important, they are worth constructing well. Good protos will be around for a long time, and bad protos will be talked about for a long time. Wouldn't you prefer to have your name attached to the former, rather than the latter?


An online version of Programming for the Newton using Macintosh, 2nd ed. ©1996, 1994, Julie McKeehan and Neil Rhodes.

Last modified: 1 DEC 1996